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Brequet chain
Brequet chain Breq"uet chain`
A watch-guard.
Court of RequestsRequest Re*quest" (r?-kw[hand]st"), n. [OE. requeste, OF.
requeste, F. requ?te, LL. requesta, for requisita, fr. L.
requirere, requisitum, to seek again, ask for. See Require,
and cf. Quest.]
1. The act of asking for anything desired; expression of
desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition;
entreaty.
I will marry her, sir, at your request. --Shak.
2. That which is asked for or requested. ``He gave them their
request.' --Ps. cvi. 15.
I will both hear and grant you your requests.
--Shak.
3. A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to
be sought after or asked for; demand.
Knowledge and fame were in as great request as
wealth among us now. --Sir W.
Temple.
Court of Requests.
(a) A local tribunal, sometimes called Court of
Consience, founded by act of Parliament to facilitate
the recovery of small debts from any inhabitant or
trader in the district defined by the act; -- now
mostly abolished.
(b) A court of equity for the relief of such persons as
addressed the sovereign by supplication; -- now
abolished. It was inferior to the Court of Chancery.
[Eng.] --Brande & C.
Syn: Asking; solicitation; petition; prayer; supplication;
entreaty; suit. FrequenceFrequence Fre"quence, n. [See Frequency.]
1. A crowd; a throng; a concourse. [Archaic.] --Tennyson.
2. Frequency; abundance. [R.] --Bp. Hall. Frequentable
Frequentable Fre*quent"a*ble, a.
Accessible. [R.] --Sidney.
Frequentage
Frequentage Fre*quent"age, n.
The practice or habit of frequenting. [R.] --Southey.
Frequenter
Frequenter Fre*quent*er, n.
One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to
customarily.
Frequently
Frequently Fre*quent*ly, adv.
At frequent or short intervals; many times; often;
repeatedly; commonly.
Frequentness
Frequentness Fre"quent*ness, n.
The quality of being frequent.
Infrequence
Infrequence In*fre"quence, Infrequency In*fre"quen*cy, n.
[L. infrequentia scantiness : cf. F. infrequence.]
1. The state of rarely occuring; uncommonness; rareness; as,
the infrquence of his visits.
2. The state of not being frequented; solitude; isolation;
retirement; seclusion. [R.]
The solitude and infrequency of the place. --Bp.
Hall.
Infrequency
Infrequence In*fre"quence, Infrequency In*fre"quen*cy, n.
[L. infrequentia scantiness : cf. F. infrequence.]
1. The state of rarely occuring; uncommonness; rareness; as,
the infrquence of his visits.
2. The state of not being frequented; solitude; isolation;
retirement; seclusion. [R.]
The solitude and infrequency of the place. --Bp.
Hall.
InfrequentInfrequent In*fre"quent, a. [L. infrquens : cf.F. infrequent.
See In- not, and Frequent.]
Seldom happening or occurring; rare; uncommon; unusual.
The act whereof is at this day infrequent or out of use
among all sorts of men. --Sir T.
Elyot. Infrequently
Infrequently In*fre"quent*ly, adv.
Not frequently; rarely.
Law of frequency of errorError Er"ror, n. [OF. error, errur, F. erreur, L. error, fr.
errare to err. See Err.]
1. A wandering; a roving or irregular course. [Obs.]
The rest of his journey, his error by sea. --B.
Jonson.
2. A wandering or deviation from the right course or
standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something
made wrong or left wrong; as, an error in writing or in
printing; a clerical error.
3. A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false
notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.
H? judgment was often in error, though his candor
remained unimpaired. --Bancroft.
4. A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or
transgression; iniquity; fault. --Ps. xix. 12.
5. (Math.) The difference between the approximate result and
the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of
double position.
6. (Mensuration)
(a) The difference between an observed value and the true
value of a quantity.
(b) The difference between the observed value of a
quantity and that which is taken or computed to be the
true value; -- sometimes called residual error.
7. (Law.) A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record
in matters of law or of fact.
8. (Baseball) A fault of a player of the side in the field
which results in failure to put out a player on the other
side, or gives him an unearned base.
Law of error, or Law of frequency of error (Mensuration),
the law which expresses the relation between the magnitude
of an error and the frequency with which that error will
be committed in making a large number of careful
measurements of a quantity.
Probable error. (Mensuration) See under Probable.
Writ of error (Law), an original writ, which lies after
judgment in an action at law, in a court of record, to
correct some alleged error in the proceedings, or in the
judgment of the court. --Bouvier. Burrill.
Syn: Mistake; fault; blunder; failure; fallacy; delusion;
hallucination; sin. See Blunder. Overfrequent
Overfrequent O"ver*fre"quent, a.
Too frequent.
Requere
Requere Re*quere" (r?--kw?r"), v. t.
To require. [Obs.]
RequestRequest Re*quest" (r?-kw?st"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Requested; p. pr. & vb. n. Requesting.] [Cf. OF.
requester, F. requ[^e]ter.]
1. To ask for (something); to express desire ffor; to
solicit; as, to request his presence, or a favor.
2. To address with a request; to ask.
I request you To give my poor host freedom. --Shak.
Syn: To ask; solicit; entreat; beseech. See Beg. RequestRequest Re*quest" (r?-kw[hand]st"), n. [OE. requeste, OF.
requeste, F. requ?te, LL. requesta, for requisita, fr. L.
requirere, requisitum, to seek again, ask for. See Require,
and cf. Quest.]
1. The act of asking for anything desired; expression of
desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition;
entreaty.
I will marry her, sir, at your request. --Shak.
2. That which is asked for or requested. ``He gave them their
request.' --Ps. cvi. 15.
I will both hear and grant you your requests.
--Shak.
3. A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to
be sought after or asked for; demand.
Knowledge and fame were in as great request as
wealth among us now. --Sir W.
Temple.
Court of Requests.
(a) A local tribunal, sometimes called Court of
Consience, founded by act of Parliament to facilitate
the recovery of small debts from any inhabitant or
trader in the district defined by the act; -- now
mostly abolished.
(b) A court of equity for the relief of such persons as
addressed the sovereign by supplication; -- now
abolished. It was inferior to the Court of Chancery.
[Eng.] --Brande & C.
Syn: Asking; solicitation; petition; prayer; supplication;
entreaty; suit. RequestedRequest Re*quest" (r?-kw?st"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Requested; p. pr. & vb. n. Requesting.] [Cf. OF.
requester, F. requ[^e]ter.]
1. To ask for (something); to express desire ffor; to
solicit; as, to request his presence, or a favor.
2. To address with a request; to ask.
I request you To give my poor host freedom. --Shak.
Syn: To ask; solicit; entreat; beseech. See Beg. Requester
Requester Re*quest"er (-?r), n.
One who requests; a petitioner.
RequestingRequest Re*quest" (r?-kw?st"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Requested; p. pr. & vb. n. Requesting.] [Cf. OF.
requester, F. requ[^e]ter.]
1. To ask for (something); to express desire ffor; to
solicit; as, to request his presence, or a favor.
2. To address with a request; to ask.
I request you To give my poor host freedom. --Shak.
Syn: To ask; solicit; entreat; beseech. See Beg. Unfrequency
Unfrequency Un*fre"quen*cy, n.
Infrequency.
UnfrequentUnfrequent Un*fre"quent, a. [Pref. un- not + frequent.]
Infrequent. --J. H. Newman. -- Un*fre"quent*ly adv. Unfrequent
Unfrequent Un`fre*quent", v. t. [1st pref. un- + frequent.]
To cease to frequent. [Obs.]
They quit their thefts and unfrequent the fields. --J.
Philips.
Unfrequented
Unfrequented Un`fre*quent"ed, a. [Pref. un- + frequented.]
Rarely visited; seldom or never resorted to by human beings;
as, an unfrequented place or forest. --Addison.
UnfrequentlyUnfrequent Un*fre"quent, a. [Pref. un- not + frequent.]
Infrequent. --J. H. Newman. -- Un*fre"quent*ly adv.
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